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Nationalism, Positivism and Catholicism: The Politics of Charles Maurras and French Catholics 1890-1914 by Michael Sutton 9780521893404
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £45.41At the time of the Dreyfus Affair and the start of the Action Francaise, Charles Maurras pressed forward the idea, borrowed from Auguste Comte, of an alliance between Positivists and Catholics. The... -
1830-1848: The End of Metaphysics as a Transformation of Culture by H. De Vriese 9789042913936
Booksplease Price: £54.94The question of 'the end of metaphysics' is generally considered as a central issue concerning the nature and significance of A"philosophy as suchA", and, accordingly, as belonging to the realm of... -
Classic and Contemporary Readings in Sociology by Ian Marsh 9780582320239
Booksplease Price: £46.65Classic and Contemporary Readings in Sociology introduces the reader to sociological issues, theories and debates, providing extracts of primary source material, from both classical and contemporary... -
The Religion of Humanity: The Impact of Comtean Positivism on Victorian Britain by T. R. Wright 9780521078979
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98The Religion of Humanity, first expounded by the founder of Positivism, Auguste Comte, focused the minds of a wide range of prominent Victorians on the possibility of replacing Christianity with an... -
Introduction to Sociology Your First Edition: A Comparison of Disciplines to Prepare Students to Build Skills for Social Life and Rewarding Careers by Annie Ngana-Mundeke 9781524967932
Booksplease Price: £75.25Introduction to Sociology: Your First Edition offers outstanding insights for students taking Introduction to Sociology, Sociology and Law, Introduction to Anthropology, and Introduction to... -
Islam and the Metropole: A Case Study of Religion and Rhetoric in Algeria by Ben Hardman 9781433102714
RRP: £77.65Booksplease Price: £69.18Islam and the Metropole is an exploration of the colonial policies of France regarding Islam and the effects they had on religion in the early days of Algerian independence. Following the... -
Positivism, Science and 'The Scientists' in Porfirian Mexico: A Reappraisal by Natalia Priego
Booksplease Price: £29.41This innovative monograph is of major significance for not only students and academics undertaking research on the history of Mexico during the long dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, but also scholars... -
Reconfiguring Truth: Postmodernism, Science Studies, and the Search for a New Model of Knowledge by Steven C. Ward 9780847682607
Booksplease Price: £40.79This refreshingly original book links the postmodern critique of notions such as "reality" and "truth" with approaches to knowledge found in science and technology studies (STS), a field also... -
Imperial Sceptics: British Critics of Empire, 1850-1920 by Gregory Claeys 9781107407091
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.21Imperial Sceptics provides a highly original analysis of the emergence of opposition to the British Empire from 1850-1920. Departing from existing accounts, which have focused upon the Boer War and... -
Immunity: From Science to Philosophy Hidetaka Yakura 9781032776590
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £110.39This book explores the essence of immunity. After an initial review of hypotheses, models, and theories proposed to explain immune phenomena in humans and mice, it summarizes the results from... -
A Conflict of Paradigms: Social Epistemology and the Collapse of Literary Education by Rebecca K. Webb 9780739117569
Booksplease Price: £46.28A Conflict of Paradigms provides a historical analysis of literary education following the trend of radical pedagogy introduced in the 1980s. Rebecca K. Webb thoroughly sets the ground for debate by... -
A Conflict of Paradigms: Social Epistemology and the Collapse of Literary Education by Rebecca K. Webb 9780739117552
Booksplease Price: £96.35A Conflict of Paradigms provides a historical analysis of literary education following the trend of radical pedagogy introduced in the 1980s. Rebecca K. Webb thoroughly sets the ground for debate by... -
Synergetics: Far from Equilibrium by A. Pacault 9783642672644
Booksplease Price: £46.28This volume gathers most of the lectures and communications presented at the meeting t held in Bordeaux from the 27th to the 29 h of September and entitled "Far from equi librium : instabilities and... -
Signs of the Material World: Dostoevsky, Science, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel Melissa Frazier 9781487560706
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £39.11Signs of the Material World traces the literary effects of nineteenth-century materialism that includes the mind and body within a multifaceted "living life." The book examines a range of scientists,... -
Mill by Frederick Rosen 9780199271061
Booksplease Price: £45.03Frederick Rosen presents an original study of John Stuart Mill's moral and political philosophy, which explores the main themes of his writings--particularly those that emerge from the two major... -
Sociological Theories of Development Ashek Mahmud 9789819543410
Booksplease Price: £65.96This textbook specifically focuses on sociological theories of development for upper undergraduate students of sociology, international development studies, South Asian studies, and related courses... -
The Transformation of Theology, 1830-1890: Positivism and Protestant Thought in Britain and America by Charles D. Cashdollar 9780691601168
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £63.59Charles Cashdollar reinterprets nineteenth-century British and American Protestant thought by identifying positivism as the central intellectual issue of the era. Positivism meant, at first, the... -
Jane Austen and Altruism by Magdalen Ki
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Jane Austen and Altruism identifies a compelling theme, namely, the view that Jane Austen propounds a rigorous, boundary-sensitive model of altruism that counters the human propensity to selfishness... -
Imperial Sceptics: British Critics of Empire, 1850-1920 by Gregory Claeys 9780521199544
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £57.22Imperial Sceptics provides a highly original analysis of the emergence of opposition to the British Empire from 1850-1920. Departing from existing accounts, which have focused upon the Boer War and... -
Relativism and Post-Truth in Contemporary Society: Possibilities and Challenges by Mikael Stenmark 9783319965581
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £99.94This book approaches post-truth and relativism in a multidisciplinary fashion. Researchers from astrophysics, philosophy, psychology, media studies, religious studies, anthropology, social... -
Introduction to Sociology: Concepts and Theories Brij Mohan (University of Delhi, India.) 9781032270371
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This textbook explores the emergence of sociology as a distinct social science. Focusing on the evolution of social theories, movements and ideas through history, it analyses the dynamic relationship... -
Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Volume 8: 1890-1892 by Charles S. Peirce 9780253372086
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.30Volume 8 of this landmark edition follows Peirce from May 1890 through July 1892-a period of turmoil as his career unraveled at the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. The loss of his principal source of... -
Politics in the Human Interest: Applying Sociology in the Real World by William Du Bois 9780739117705
Booksplease Price: £91.39Politics in the Human Interest presents the striking proposition that by paying attention to what's been learned about human behavior, we can develop a political agenda that is in the human interest... -
The West: The History of an Idea Georgios Varouxakis 9780691177182
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32A comprehensive intellectual history of the idea of the WestHow did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did "Westerners"... -
Genesis by Michel Serres 9780472105922
Booksplease Price: £70.09This English translation of Michel Serres' 1982 book Genese captures in lucid prose the startling breadth and depth of his thinking, as he probes the relations between order, disorder, knowledge,... -
The Thought of Bernard Stiegler: Capitalism, Technology and the Politics of Spirit by Dr. Ross Abbinnett
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This book provides a comprehensive account of the work of Bernard Stiegler, one of the most influential living social and political philosophers of the twenty-first century. Focusing on Stiegler's... -
Theism and Atheism in a Post-Secular Age by Morteza Hashemi Madani 9783319549477
Booksplease Price: £92.20This book examines the post-secular idea of 'religion for non-believers'. The new form of unbelief which is dubbed as 'tourist atheism' is not based on absolute rejection of religion as a 'dangerous... -
Back to the University's Future: The Second Coming of Humboldt by Steve Fuller 9783031363269
RRP: £129.99Booksplease Price: £112.12This volume addresses the central question facing the future of higher education around the world, whether and why universities need to exist at all. This book accepts the question's premise: It is... -
Genesis by Michel Serres 9780472084357
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.59This English translation of Michel Serres' 1982 book Genese captures in lucid prose the startling breadth and depth of his thinking, as he probes the relations between order, disorder, knowledge,... -
Gender and Citizenship: The Dialectics of Subject-Citizenship in Nineteenth Century French Literature and Culture by Claudia Moscovici 9780847696956
Booksplease Price: £37.42Moscovici proposes a new understanding of how gender relations were reformulated by both male and female writers in nineteenth-century France. She analyzes the different versions of gendered... -
The Perspective of Historical Sociology: The Individual as Homo-Sociologicus Through Society and History by Jiří Šubrt 9781787433649
Booksplease Price: £91.67This book provides a comprehensive overview of the range of themes which make up the field of Historical Sociology. Jiri Subrt systematically discusses the main problems of societal development,... -
The Religion of Humanity – The Illusion of Our Times by Pierre Manent
Booksplease Price: £32.64"Is not modern democracy the finally-found form of the religion of Humanity?" (2007)The Religion of Humanity: The Illusion of Our Time is the first anthology in any language of the writings of the... -
Understanding Society and Knowledge Nico Stehr 9781802203783
Booksplease Price: £91.11Understanding Society and Knowledge proposes that knowledge, rather than nature, violence, or power, provides the basis of and driving force behind human action in modern society. It demonstrates how... -
Confronting Disaster: An Existential Approach to Technoscience by Raphael Sassower 9780739108512
Booksplease Price: £38.80Contemporary society is rife with instability. Our active and invasive study of genetics has given life to one of the great specters of biological science: the clone. The scarcity of natural energy... -
Human Rights on Trial: A Genealogy of the Critique of Human Rights by Justine Lacroix 9781108424394
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £75.82The first systematic analysis of the arguments made against human rights from the French Revolution to the present day. Through the writings of Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, Auguste Comte, Louis de... -
Fictions of Certitude: Science, Faith, and the Search for Meaning, 1840-1920 by John S. Haller 9780817320539
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £37.08The search for belief and meaning among nineteenth-century intellectuals.The nineteenth century's explosion of scientific theories and new technologies undermined many deep-seated beliefs that had... -
Understanding Society and Knowledge Nico Stehr 9781802203806
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £27.64Understanding Society and Knowledge proposes that knowledge, rather than nature, violence, or power, provides the basis of and driving force behind human action in modern society. It demonstrates how... -
The Socio-Literary Imaginary in 19th and 20th Century Britain: Victorian and Edwardian Inflections Maria Bachman 9781032089102
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08At once an invitation and a provocation, The Socio-Literary Imaginary represents the first collection of essays to illuminate the historically and intellectually complex relationship between literary... -
Debating Humanity: Towards a Philosophical Sociology by Daniel Chernilo 9781107129337
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £91.76Debating Humanity explores sociological and philosophical efforts to delineate key features of humanity that identify us as members of the human species. After challenging the normative... -
Debating Humanity: Towards a Philosophical Sociology by Daniel Chernilo 9781107569867
Booksplease Price: £32.12Debating Humanity explores sociological and philosophical efforts to delineate key features of humanity that identify us as members of the human species. After challenging the normative...